Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

3.3 EFTECS at TLS-Layer 3 EFTECS
in a circular way or in a combination of both. The major focus lies on the
student’s interests.
It is assumed that an instance of a Case-Study-TLS could be built based on these
tags. However, further analysis is necessary and will be done during the next stage
of the project (cf. chapter 4).
3.3.4 Drill and Practice
Drill-and-Practice-TLSs are already extensively used in a computing context and
could easily be included in the EFTECS. In a scenario using this TLS, students
are first given a “drill” or practice running of a task, e.g. the demonstration and
construction of a do-while-loop in programming, and are then instructed to do the
task on their own over and over again. A possible set of meta-information that
could form the basis of this TLS is shown in table 4.
Drill and practice meta-information
Table 4: Drill and practice meta-information
The implementation of this TLS into the actual prototype was not possible due to
time and resources restrictions. However, the future work (cf. section 9.2) on the
EFTECS and its prototype authoring tool does not only aim at the implementation
of the Drill-and-Practice-TLS but also at the implementation of several additional
TLSs.
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